Ravi Ranade, global IT manager, Manufacturing & Supply, Orica Australia, shares the business benefits of using enterprise mobility in manufacturing & supply and the critical success factors when designing an enterprise mobility strategy.
ISAP: What benefits does enterprise mobility offer businesses in manufacturing & supply?
Ravi Ranade: Efficiency and real time data entry in ERP – pick lists, goods receipts & issues, stock take, batch management, document approvals. Updating sales order, updating sales forecast numbers, capturing signature as proof of delivery.
ISAP: How do you think enterprise mobility can be best deployed in the manufacturing & supply sectors in the future?
RR: Have end-to-end processes in place. You should only mobilise properly identified process. Mobility is not an answer to fix broken processes. Only use mobility where it provides business benefits.
ISAP: What are the main factors stopping businesses from introducing enterprise mobility?
RR: No defined mobility strategy, cost, complexity of existing ERP system and the required back-end IT infrastructure.
ISAP: What would you say are the critical success factors when designing an enterprise mobility strategy?
RR: User friendliness really adds value to business by increasing process efficiency or improving productivity, acceptance by targeted user base and enough interest generated in business for continued investment.
ISAP: What will people at the 2013 SAUG Summit take away from your presentation?
RR: Basic concepts of mobility, some pointers for strategy development, actual look and feel of application.
Ravi Ranade will discuss how Orica Australia has been utilising SAP ECC and SAP Aii/OER with mobile application to deliver product tracking in his presentation ‘Product Tracking Using Mobility and SAP’ at the SAUG National Summit 2013.
